The Odyssey

Question 1

Eurymachus

Answer 1

One of the mean suitors; plots to kill Telemachus then deceives Penelope about it

Question 2

Antinous

Answer 2

One of main suitors; plots to kill Telemachus when he returns home

Question 3

Two main suitors

Answer 3

Antinous, Eurymachys

Question 4

Pisistratus

Answer 4

Son of Nestor and friend of Telemachus; accompanies him to Sparta

Question 5

Eithothea

Answer 5

Daughter of proteus; tells Menelaus how to capture her father

Question 6

Proteus

Answer 6

Man of the sea; is captured by Menelaus after taking many forms and is forced to tell him how to get home and the fate of his men; never lies

Question 7

Medon

Answer 7

Town crier in Ithaca; is loyal to Odysseus so he is t slaughtered with everyone else; tells Penelope about plot to kill Telemachus and that he left

Question 8

Ino

Answer 8

Immortal woman who lives in the sea and gives ody. an immortal scarf that helps him survive Poseidon’s rage and arrive on island of Phaecians

Question 9

Nausicaa

Answer 9

Phaeacian princess that ody. encounters on this journey; has her handmaidens bathe him and promises him food; tells him to go to her parents

Question 10

Alcinous

Answer 10

King of Phaeacians; husband of arete

Question 11

Arete

Answer 11

Great queen of the Phaeacians; clever, intelligent, held higher than her husband, perceptive, can dissolve fights

Question 12

Laodamas

Answer 12

Favorite son of the king; challenges ody. to participate in athletic games at palace

Question 13

Demodocus

Answer 13

Entertains at party and sings about Trojan war and makes ody. cry

Question 14

Aeolus

Answer 14

God king of winds; gives ody. shelter and a bag of winds; rejects ody. after he comes a second time bc he realizes ody. is cursed

Question 15

Elpenor

Answer 15

Died from falling off roof; asked ody. to give him funeral after return from hades

Question 16

Eurylochus

Answer 16

One of Ithacans traveling with ody; cautious; refuses to enter circes hall and always disagrees with ody; convinces ody’s men to eat sun cattle

Question 17

Tiresias

Answer 17

Blind prophet whose help ody. seeks in underworld

Question 18

Anticlea

Answer 18

Mother of ody; died from loneliness

Question 19

Scylla

Answer 19

monster that ody. has to pass with his men; has been instructed not to fight with her, but to row as quickly as possible; ody chooses to face her instead of other monster because he would lose less men; she eats 6 of his men

Question 20

Charybdis

Answer 20

Sea monster; swallows sea and vomits it back up 3 times a day

Question 21

Pylos

Answer 21

Home of Nestor; kind people

Question 22

Ogygia

Answer 22

Home of calypso; beautiful paradise; ody is here for 7 years

Question 23

Scheria

Answer 23

Land of Phaeacians; land that’s off the beaten path (not a lot of visitors)

Question 24

Ismarus

Answer 24

First land ody lands at after Troy; home of cicones; ody and men plunder but stay too long and cicones bring reinforcements and kill 72 men

Question 25

Aeolian island

Answer 25

Island of Aeolus; floating island; ody stayed for 1 month

Question 26

Island of laestrygonians

Answer 26

Island of cannibals; entrance to island is long, narrow, pathway and cannibals throw spears down and trap ships inside; ody loses most men here

Question 27

Aeaea

Answer 27

Home of Circe; stays for 1 year

Question 28

thrinacia

Answer 28

Island of sun god Helios; ody men kill sacred cattle and die for it

Question 29

Eurycleia

Answer 29

Telemachus’s nurse; basically raised him and he trusts her; the only person Telemachus told he was leaving